Personnel

CREW



2ND LT HARVEY J. ROWLAND  P  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ SN:0-753249

2ND LT ROBERT M. HESS  CP  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ SN:0-761814

2ND LT ALAN B. GOLDBERG  NAV  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ SN:0-710257

2ND LT EDWARD T. KEARNEY  BOM  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ SN:0-759941 TAPS: 29 OCT 1990

SGT DANIEL J. O'CONNELL  ROG  NOC    SN:32804242 TAPS: 31 DEC 1984

SGT JOHN F. BRODY  WG  NOC    SN:37340563

SGT JOSEPH R. LEONE  BTG  NOC    SN:32865123 TAPS: 14 JAN 1976

S/SGT WILLIAM AKE   WG  CPT 25 AUG 44 PILOTZ

SGT GARNET W. PARSONS	` TTE  NOC    SN:37500523 TAPS: 14 JAN 1986

SGT ORVILLE A. MARKS  WG  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ SN:32832797 

SGT THOMAS R. PUCKETT  TG  CPT 8 SEP 44 MAINZ SN:39559282



418TH SQDN.. CREW, AS ABOVE, JOINED THE 100TH ON 30 MAY 1944. 

According to Lt Rowlands questionaire 10/3/00, S/Sgt William Ake was not on crew but he is listed in opps as flying with this crew on many missions.(mpf)



"Lt Rowland enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corp and was sent to Wheeler Field, Hawaii.  While waiting to get into aviation mechanics school, Pearl Harbor happened.  I happened to be about two hundred yards from where the first bomb was dropped.  After Dec 7, 1941, I applied and was accepted for Aviation Cadet Program.  In October 1942, I was returned to the States to begin schooling at Santa Ana, California.  Schooling continued at Ft Stockton, TX-Pecos, TX & Marfa TX where I received my wings on commission as a Second LT on August 31, 1943.  Then was sent to Hobbs New Mexico to Start training as first pilot in B-17.  Was sent to Salt Lake City Utah after completion of school to pick up my crew and head to Alexandria, Louisiana for more training.  In April of 1944, we picked up our B-17G at Kearney Nebraska and flew to England" (Harvey Rowland 10/3/00 by mpf)





LIST OF MISSIONS FOR FIRST LT HARVEY J. ROWLAND (mpf 10/3/00)



1. 6/06/44  D-Day-French Coast

2. 7/06/44  Nantes

3. 8/06/44  Tours

4. 11/6/44  Berck sur Mur

5. 18/6/44  Ostermoor

6. 20/6/44  Fallersleben

7. 21/6/44  BERLIN 

8. 22/6/44  Paris

9. 29/6/44  Bohlen

10. 7/07/44  Bohlen

11. 8/07/44  Clamecy

12. 11/7/44  Munich

13. 12/7/44  Munich

14. 13/7/44  Munich

15. 14/7/44  Marquies Supply Drop

16. 17/7/44  Pas De Calai V-1 Rocket sites (No Ball)

17. 18/7/44  Kiel

18. 19/7/44  Schweinfurt

19. 20/7/44  Merseburg

20. 24/7/44  St Lo

21. 25/7/44  St Lo

22. 28/7/44  Merseburg

23. 29/7/44  Merseburg

24. 2/08/44  La Fere

25. 3/08/44  Troyes

26. 4/08/44  Hamburg

27. 5/08/44  Magdeburg

28. 6/08/44  BERLIN

29. 24/8/44  Ruhland

30. 25/8/44  Politz

31. 26/8/44  Brest

32. 30/8/44  Bremen

33. 3/09/44  Brest

34. 5/09/44  Stuttgart

35. 8/09/44  Mainz